Aerial view of a Vilnius street.

Aerial view of the old colonial city centre.

Aerial view of Acholibur camp for internally displaced people (IDPs). For 18 years the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) rebels have terrorised the Northern provinces of Uganda abducting 20,000 children an...

Aerial view of a hamlet devastated by the earthquake which struck Pakistani-administered Kashmir on 08/10/2005. Almost all of the houses in this isolated and mountainous region were left uninhabitable...

Aerial view of the Faro de Colon (Columbus Lighthouse).

Aerial view of the town.

Aerial view of the town.

Aerial view of the Benako camp for Rwandan refugees.

Aerial view of the city.

An aerial view of a devastated village near Banda Aceh following the tsunami which struck South Asia on 26/12/2004. An earthquake of magnitude 9 triggered a series of tidal waves which caused devastat...

Aerial view of the Benako camp for Rwandan refugees.

Aerial view of the Benako camp for Rwandan refugees.

Aerial view of housing patterns on the edge of this oil boomtown in west Kazakhstan.

Aerial view of a river system as it approaches the Caspian Sea in west Kazakhstan.

Aerial view of housing patterns and the Ural River (which divides continental Europe from Asia) in this oil boomtown in west Kazakhstan.

Aerial view of homes in the Crossroads township.

The Tour du Senegal cycle race. Aerial view of the peloton passing through a traditional village near Wassadou.

Aerial view of a very dry, rural area of the Andean mountains.

Aerial view of a small Caribbean island with a coral reef.

Aerial view of the city of Merida in the Andean mountains.

Aerial view of the coast of the island. Almost all of the mountains in Haiti have been affected by deforestation, which causes flooding and accelerates erosion in the area. The wood is cut by farmers...

Aerial view of the Huangpu River. The river is a tributary of the Yangtze and the main artery for the country's largest city.

Aerial view of the eastern islands (fushi) of Laamu Atoll following the tsunami which struck South Asia on 26/12/2004. An underwater earthquake measuring 9 on the Richter scale triggered a series of t...

Aerial view of tents in Liboi camp for refugees from Somalia.

Aerial view of Monrovia. In the foreground beach and fishing boats. In the background on the right the city centre and the two bridges where there was heavy fighting only a few months before between L...

Aerial view of frozen lakes, taken on a flight from Fairbanks to a village on the edge of the Arctic circle.

Aerial view of frozen lakes, taken on a flight from Fairbanks to a village on the edge of the Arctic circle.

Aerial view of a tented camp for refugees from the fighting in Kosovo.

An aerial view of the Piazza del Campo on the day of the race.Twice each summer, the square in the medieval Tuscan town of Siena is transformed into a dirt racetrack for Il Palio, the most passionate...

Aerial view of the huge Catoba diamond mine which stretches for two miles along the river Cuango. Up to 5,000 illegal miners (known as camamgistas) are on site at any one time. The diggers work in tea...

300 kilometres of pylon drilled into the sea floor spread out like octopus tentacles over the surface of the Caspian Sea in an aerial view of ‘Oily Rocks', an offshore oil city built off the coast of...

Aerial view of a small farm, growing bananas.

Aerial view of Khayelitsha Township.

Aerial view of the city.

Aerial view of the fabled city on the Magdalena river.

Aerial view of the walled colonial city on the Caribbean.

Aerial view of Colonial Town.

Aerial view of the Cathedral.

Aerial view of Old San Juan.

Aerial view of Bacardi rum plant.

Aerial view of the Grasberg mine at Tembagapura, run by the Freeport McMoRan company at an altitude of 4000 metres in the highlands of West Papua. It has the largest known reserves of gold in the worl...